Episode 112: All-Wheel Drive or Bust for Model S
Ride the Lightning: Tesla and EV Podcast
Ryan McCaffrey
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 24 September 2017
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Tesla puts the brakes on rear-wheel drive Model Ses, a few Supercharging-related updates from around the world, Tesla reportedly partners with AMD on self-driving processing units, and more!
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| 0:00.0 | On this week's episode of Ride the Lightning the Tesla Unofficial Podcast, |
| 0:03.5 | Tesla puts the brakes on the rear-wheel drive model S, |
| 0:07.1 | a few supercharging related updates from around the world. |
| 0:10.7 | Tesla reportedly partners with AMD on a self-driving processor and more. Oh, What's happening, |
| 0:35.0 | happening friends? Welcome to Ride The Lighting. It is the unofficial Tesla |
| 0:40.4 | podcast for September 24th, 2017. This is episode 112 and I am very happy to have |
| 0:50.0 | well I'm still here I'm still on the New shore, but I've celebrated my birthday week down here, |
| 0:55.0 | this big family reunion, which is actually on account of my cousin Pat, the Model S owner from Arizona, who I've mentioned number mentioned number times my good old cousin Pat. |
| 1:03.7 | It's his 60th birthday celebration so we're all here for that just happens to |
| 1:09.1 | coincidentally also be my birthday but yeah we're for him, but it was good to just be my my |
| 1:15.6 | birthday present was to just get to be here with with family from all over the |
| 1:19.9 | country that I just don't get to see very often and just what a what a blessing that was and is I'm still here with some folks have gone home |
| 1:27.4 | We're winding down. I'm heading back tomorrow, but I'm so recording on Friday heading back tomorrow on Saturday. |
| 1:32.8 | So it is good to be back with you all though. |
| 1:35.1 | I researched the heck out of the show as always this week and well tell you what |
| 1:40.8 | vacation doesn't it's a good thing I didn't take this week off for vacation |
| 1:45.8 | because there's been a lot of Tesla News. |
| 1:49.8 | So yeah, I want to thank everybody who had sent a long kind birthday wishes and with that I move on to |
| 1:56.2 | the podcast and I want to start with just a kind of last follow-up on the hurricane to the the for the last few weeks now as Harvey and Erma and Jose and the rest have been in the news. |
| 2:16.8 | I just actually wanted to read you an email here that I received from Evan in Cape Canaveral who wanted to add some perspective on this. |
| 2:25.0 | He writes in with regards to his Erma, Hurricane Erma evacuation experience. |
| 2:31.6 | He says, I just wanted to share our experience with Hurricane Irma |
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